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The 2004 reunification of Eastern and Western Europe and the subsequent economic crisis caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility and a profound shift in preceding patterns of migration in Europe. While previous decades of European integration brought very modest cross-border flows of labour, the past decade has engendered the largest European movements of labour in modern time mostly from East to West, but eventually also from South to North. In a situation of record high European unemployment, this has sparked controversy about the very notion of free movement, one of the basic foundations of the European Community, and has unleashed heated debates about the conditions, causes, and consequences of large-scale labour migration for receiving as well as sending societies. Against this background, this volume of Comparative Social Research will contribute to improve our understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the past decade's surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe.

The 2004 reunification of Eastern and Western Europe and the subsequent economic crisis caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility and a profound shift in preceding patterns of migration in Europe. While previous decades of European integration brought very modest cross-border flows of labour, the past decade has engendered the largest European movements of labour in modern time mostly from East to West, but eventually also from South to North. In a situation of record high European unemployment, this has sparked controversy about the very notion of free movement, one of the basic foundations of the European Community, and has unleashed heated debates about the conditions, causes, and consequences of large-scale labour migration for receiving as well as sending societies. Against this background, this volume of Comparative Social Research will contribute to improve our understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the past decade's surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe.

In Anlehnung an Anthony Giddens wird zunächst eine Unterscheidung von Kultur und Gesellschaft entwickelt, welche auf dem Verhältnis von Regeln und Handlungen beruht. Dieses Verhältnis wird dann in der Realität von Märkten verfolgt. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf jene Marktprozesse gerichtet, in denen Kategorien von Waren konstituiert und verändert werden. Als Beispiel dient dabei der japanische Arbeitsmarkt, nicht zuletzt wegen der weltwirtschaftlichen Konstitution einer einheitlichen Ware Arbeitskraft im Zusammenhang der europäischen Integration untersucht. Es wird die These vertreten, daß sich in den europäischen Gesellschaften ein grundsätzlicher Wandel hinsichtlich des Verpflichtungscharakters der beruflichen Arbeit abzeichne - von der überkommenen Arbeitsmoral zu einer neuen durch hohe Grade der Autonomie gekennzeichneten "Berufsethik". (GF)